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Tag Archives: Zazen
Dharma and Karma, What’s In Your Backpack?
In this podcast, visiting Zen Master Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will (Hea An) Rauschenberger at our Sunday Session on May 4th, 2025. The talk includes chanting the Heart Sutra in the beginning (you may skip it around 4 minutes in).
The Precepts, Actuality and Flowering of Being
Strip away who we think we are and we can experience the actuality of who we are.
This Mind Alone is Buddha
Zen is solving the problem of Birth and Death.
Why do we practice Zazen, doing no-thing?
If we already have Buddha Nature, why do we meditate?
This Mind Alone, There Is No Other Mind
Taking responsibility for your life and liberation are not different.
Zen Day with Chong An Sunim
A Zen Day at OZS, Friday, May 9th, 2025. OZS is located at 4690 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, Florida 34232. The suggested donation for the talk is $10.00 and $40.00 for the Zen Day. You may come just to the talk on Thursday night. Zen Day participants are asked to attend the talk (your donation will cover both). The Zen Day will have several walking and sitting meditations and a potluck lunch. Space is limited, and you will need to RSVP. […]
News – Chong An Sunim is coming to OZS in May
‘Ignorance, intelligence, and insight – how to obtain who we are and find our true path.’ A talk with Chong An Sunim on Thursday evening, May 8, 2025, followed on Friday, May 9th, 2025, with a Zen Day at OZS. Thursday’s Dharma Talk will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Friday’s Zen Day will be from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. OZS is located at 4690 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, Florida 34232. The suggested donation for the talk is $10.00 […]
I have no words, a walk down the road of habit
I have no words. There’s nothing I can give you that you don’t already have. There’s nothing I can add to what you already are. So we use words because we’ve forgotten who we are in our ignorance. We walk down the road of habit energy, it drags us along like a chain, and we struggle. As we go down the path of getting to know ourselves, we discover that there are options for us that we didn’t think we […]
A Safe Space
What does it mean to be fearless?